Kansas is less than 50 miles from the Sprint Center, home of the Big 12 Tournament. Iowa State is more than 200 miles away. But Jayhawks coach Bill Self believes his fan base will be outnumbered when the teams meet in the conference championship game on Saturday.
“I’ll bet you they have 70 percent of the building,” Self said.
Two reasons for this: Fans of the Cyclones annually swarm to Kansas City to take in the event, and Iowa State came out of the first semifinal.
“When you play in that first game, you can hustle tickets off the team that didn’t win,” Self said.